Well, so much for aftermarket quality!
The center dash pad, while very good looking, is missing the faux stitching and doesn't match the rest of the original pads. Oh well, on the shelf it goes. I'll save it for another B-Body car. The key would be to order all three pads so they match. So, in went the original part and I'll just live with the few little blemishes on it. After all, it's original to the car so there's something to be said for that!
When you're a one man show, you find ways to get that extra hand you need when you don't trust anyone to not scratch the crap out of your work. So here's my helper with holding the dash in place while I hook everything up. Mopar dashes mount on two kick panel area bolts and then pivot on those toward the cowl. Once in those two bolts, I made this handy, CNC machined, CAD drafted, intricately designed bracing mechanism [a bent wire
] to hold the dash in place.